Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondents and cameramen in the Continental Palace Hotel swarmed down the stairs, through the lobby and out across Lam Son Square in single file, a ragtag army lugging typewriters, shoulder bags, TV cameras and sound gear. Our designated assembly point was down near the Saigon River four blocks away. Armed policemen in the square eyed us menacingly. There was no question: this formation clearly signaled the final departure of Americans from the Indochina...
Before jettisoning my shoulder bag and dashing to a waiting helicopter for what may be my last flight out of Saigon, I fished out a copy of the first story I ever filed from Viet Nam. It was dated July 8, 1948. In that year, the Viet Cong were called the Viet Minh, and they were fighting against Vietnamese government troops, French soldiers, foreign legionnaires and black mercenaries from Senegal and Morocco. When I reread that story, my first and last days in Viet Nam seemed somehow indistinguishable. Excerpt: "The French hoped to pull large non-Communist nationalist resistance units...
Harvard, as a non-profit institution, has been free from taxation, to the chagrin of local tenants and small homeowners who claim they must shoulder an unfair proportion of the property tax burden...
Representatives of the Cambridge port Homeowners and Lenants Association (CHTA) and other local groups told the council that small homeowners are forced to shoulder an unfair proportion of the property tax burden, while Harvard and MIT remain tax-exempt...
Presumably, British Director Trevor Nunn must shoulder part of the blame. If he were a line officer in charge of combat troops-and the responsibilities of a stage director are somewhat similar-he would be stripped of his rank and summarily cashiered...